Lantern-pinion.



No. 7|2,325. Patenid-Unt.A 28, |902.

A. H. NEUREUTHER.

LANTERN PINIUN.

{Appliction led June .18, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES ANDREV H. NEUREUTHER, OF PERU,

PATENT OFFICE.

ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE VESTERN CLOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF LASALLE, ILLI- NOIS, A CORPORATION OE ILLINOIS.

LANTERN-PINION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,325, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed June 18,1902.

To (ou Lf/"7,0m it' may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW l-I. NEUREU- THER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peru, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovement in Lantern-Pinions,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pinions, particularly such as are called lantern-pinions, and has for its object to provide certain new and useful improvements in such pinions.

These improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure I is a cross-section through a lantern-pinion containing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a similar cross-section through a modification. Fig. 3 is a plan View. Fig. et is an inverted plan view.

Like parts are indicated by the same letter in all the iigures.

A is the pivot-wire through the center of the wheel. B I3 are the pinion-wires, properly grouped thereabout.

C is a mass of metal softer or having a lower melting-pointthan the pinion and pivot wires. D is a mass of similar metal.

E is the gear-wheel. Findieates the irregularly-formed or non-circular central aperture in such gear-wheel. G is that portion of the body of metal which lies on the upper side of said wheel.

H is a disk or washer.

.I is a mass of metal which surrounds the pivot-wire and bridges the space between the two masses of metal. This mass of metal might be dispensed with. The Washer might be dispensed with. The metal lying on top of the gear-wheel might be dispensed with, and the shape of the aperture in the gearwheel might be changed or might even be eircular. Vhat I have shown is the approved form of my pinion.

The use and operation of this pinion will be readily understood, for when constructed it is capable of any use to which any ordinary lantern-pinion may be put. It will be understood that the masses of metal are such as can be melted and run in molds to set the parts together, as indicated in the gures, the

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pinion-wires, disk, and gear-wheel being of a nature to resist the heat under such conditions.

I claiml. A lantern-pinion consisting of a pivotwire, properly-disposed pinion-wires, a gearwheel, and two masses of metal molded in and about such parts so as to hold them in fixed relation, while leaving the pinion-wires exposed to form the lantern-pinion.

2. A lantern-pinion consisting of a pivotwire, properly-disposed pinion-wires, a gearwheel, and two masses of metal molded in and about such parts so as to hold them in fixed relation, while leaving the pinion-wires eX- posed to form the lantern-pinion, the mass of metal lying partly on each side of the gearwheel.

3. A lantern-pinion consisting of a pivotwire, properly-disposed pinion-wires, a gearwheel, and two masses of metal molded in and about such parts so as to hold them in fixed relation, while leaving the pinion-wires eX- posed to form the lantern-pinion, the central vaperture in the gear-wheel being of non-circular form, so as to prevent it from rotating in the mass of metal.

I. A lantern-pinion consisting of a pivotwire, properly-disposed pinion-wires, a gearwheel, and two masses of metal molded in and about such parts so as to hold them in fixed relation, while leaving the pinion-wires exposed to form the lantern-pinion,and a relatively hard metal washer, one of such masses of metal capped or covered by said washer.

5. A lantern-pinion consisting of a pivotwire, properly-disposed pinion-wires, a gearwheel, and two masses of metal molded in and about such parts so as to hold them in fixed relation, while leaving the pinion-Wires eX- posed to form the lantern-pinion, one of said masses of metalv lying on both sides of the gear-wheel, and the central aperture in the gear-wheel being non-circular.

ANDREIV H. NE UREUTIIER.

Witnesses:

A. J. JOHNSON, B. E. HINDMAN. 

